On June 29, 1954, Helen Hruska boarded the Empress of Scotland on Montreal for a seven-day voyage to Liverpool. She returned on the same ship, leaving Liverpool on August 20. I don’t know whether she had done this before, but … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1951 version of Canadian Pacific’s booklet about eastern Canada and a 1953 booklet about western Canada. This is the eastern Canada version of the 1953 booklet. … Continue reading
Made to look something like a scrapbook with photos at odd angles, this 1951 booklet is filled with color photos of Canadian Pacific’s Rocky Mountain resorts. Photos on pages 3, 4, 8, 11, and 14 will be recognized from Canadian … Continue reading
A couple of Canadian Pacific menus — one with a church on the cover and one with a painting representing Evangeline — tell the story of the eviction of the Acadians after the British won the French & Indian War … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover before on a 1939 menu except that the hotel in the picture was different. The 1939 menu showed the new Hotel Vancouver, which had been jointly built by Canadian National and Canadian Pacific, while this cover … Continue reading
Here’s a Canadian industry I can get enthusiastic about. The back cover says that 1,666,880 gallons of maple syrup were produced in Quebec alone in 1929. This suggests that this menu, which is otherwise undated, is from 1930. Click image … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen menus from the Chung collection in this series showing lumbering, pulp and paper, water power, and grain. Today we have one contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader featuring smelting. Click image to download a 9.4-MB PDF of … Continue reading
This menu is apparently part of Canadian Pacific’s city series, which included menus for many of the major cities along the CP. I’ve previously shown a dozen menus in this series dating from 1926 to 1928. All but one or … Continue reading
What is now Banff National Park was created as Rocky Mountains National Park in 1887 and was renamed Banff (probably to avoid confusion with other parks in the Canadian Rockies) in 1930. The back of this 1928 menu seems confused … Continue reading
Identifying and sorting Canadian Pacific menus into series has been a most challenging task. Although Union Pacific had more dining car menus than any other railroad, Canadian Pacific had far more total menus because it also served meals in hotels, … Continue reading
